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Beat (music)
Beat (music): the basic unit of musical time, the regular pulse listeners tap or clap to; also called tactus. Distinguished from pulse and meter; tempo in BPM; near-universal in human cultures, rare across species.
Beat Bobby Flay
Beat Bobby Flay is a Food Network cooking competition series (premiered August 24, 2013) where two chefs compete for the chance to challenge Bobby Flay with a signature dish; blind-judged, Flay wins 62.6% of 543 decided battles.
Beat Generation
Beat Generation: 1950s American literary and social movement centered in Greenwich Village, North Beach, and Venice West; key figures Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs; defining works On the Road, Howl, Naked Lunch; forerunner of 1960s counterculture.
Beat It
Beat It is a 1982 Michael Jackson song from Thriller, written by Jackson, produced by Quincy Jones, with an unpaid Eddie Van Halen guitar solo. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1983, peaked at number 3 in the UK, and its Bob Giraldi-directed gang-fight video helped break MTV's racial programming barrier.
Beat music
Beat music, also British beat or Merseybeat, is an early-1960s UK rock genre from Liverpool blending rock & roll, R&B, and skiffle; the Beatles' Merseybeat sound led the British Invasion.
Beat Shazam
Beat Shazam is a Fox musical game show, premiering May 25, 2017, hosted by Jamie Foxx with daughter Corinne Foxx as DJ; created by Jeff Apploff and Wes Kauble, it has teams of two identify hit songs, with the winning team facing the Shazam app for up to $1 million.
Beat Street
Beat Street is a 1984 Orion Pictures musical drama directed by Stan Lathan, produced by Harry Belafonte, about South Bronx DJ, breakdancing, and graffiti artists in early hip-hop culture; its gold-certified soundtrack and international influence distinguish it.
Beat the Chasers
Beat the Chasers, also known as The Super Chase, is a British quiz show. It pits a single contestant against a panel of Chasers in a timed head-to-head race.
Beat Up Chanels
Beat Up Chanels (BEAT UP CHANEL$) is Slayyyter's August 1, 2025 electroclash single on RECORDS/Columbia, lead single of WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, produced by Austin Corona and Wyatt Bernard, 3:18, 134 BPM. Distinct from Eva Ora's 2025 album of a similar name.
Beata MonaLisa
Beata MonaLisa, real name Beata Mona Lisa Ernman Andersson (born 2005), is a Swedish pop singer and actress, sister of Greta Thunberg and daughter of Malena Ernman; known for Forever Piaf and her debut album as BEA.
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is a Franco-Rwandan writer of novels, short stories, and poetry whose work centers on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, memory, and exile between generations.
Beatboxing
Beatboxing, also called human beatboxing, is a musical art form using the voice to mimic percussion and drum machines, originating in 1970s New York hip-hop.
Beatie Edney
Beatie Edney (Beatrice Emma Edney, born 1962) is an English actress, daughter of Sylvia Syms, known as Heather MacLeod in Highlander (1986), Prudie in Poldark (2015–2019), and roles in In the Name of the Father, Andor, and The Pearl Comb.
Beatlemania
Beatlemania is the term for the intense fan frenzy surrounding The Beatles. It was popularized by the British press in October 1963 and became a worldwide phenomenon.
Beatles '65
Beatles '65 is the Beatles' fifth Capitol Records album, released in the US and Canada on 15 December 1964. Compiled from Beatles for Sale plus I'll Be Back and the I Feel Fine/She's a Woman single, it jumped from number 98 to number one on Billboard, the chart's highest such move.
Beatles for Sale
Beatles for Sale is the fourth studio album by the Beatles, released by Parlophone on 4 December 1964 and number one in the UK for 11 weeks.
beatMario
beatMARIO (ビートまりお) is a Japanese doujin musician, composer, and vocalist who leads the circle COOL&CREATE, best known for Touhou arrangements such as "Help me, ERINNNNNN!!" and "Night of Knights".
Beatmatching
Beatmatching is the DJ technique of adjusting a track's playback speed so its beats align with a track already playing, pioneered by Francis Grasso in 1960s New York clubs.
Beatnik
Beatnik: media stereotype of the Beat Generation, coined by Herb Caen on April 2, 1958 from "Beat" plus the Sputnik-derived suffix "-nik"; a beret-and-bongos caricature the Beats themselves rejected, superseded by "hippie" in the 1960s.
Beatrice Alda
Beatrice Alda (born 1961, New York City), daughter of Alan Alda and Arlene Alda, is an American actress, producer, and director known for Lisa Callan in The Four Seasons (1981) and directing Out Late (2008).
Beatrice Cenci (1969 film)
Beatrice Cenci (1969), aka The Conspiracy of Torture, is Lucio Fulci's Italian historical drama on the 1599 Cenci murder, starring Adrienne La Russa, Georges Wilson, and Tomas Milian; censored with an 18-year ban, distinct from Freda's 1956 film.
Béatrice Dalle
Béatrice Dalle (born Béatrice Cabarrou, 1964) is a French actress, born in Brest, discovered by Dominique Besnehard for Betty in 37°2 le matin (Betty Blue, 1986); known for Claire Denis, Jarmusch, Ferrara collaborations, and À l'intérieur.
Beatrice Egli
Beatrice Egli, born in 1988 in Lachen, Switzerland, is a schlager singer who won the tenth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar in 2013 and has topped German and Swiss charts since.
Beatrice Lillie
Beatrice Lillie (Bea Lillie, Lady Peel, 1894–1989), Canadian-born comedienne billed as "the funniest woman in the world", star of London and Broadway revue, An Evening with Beatrice Lillie, and the film Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Beatrice Portinari
Beatrice Portinari (Bice, 1266–1290), Florentine daughter of Folco Portinari and wife of Simone de' Bardi, identified through Boccaccio and Pietro Alighieri as Dante's beloved and the guide of the Divine Comedy.
Beatrice Straight
Beatrice Straight (Beatrice Whitney Straight, 1914–2001), American stage and screen actress; Oscar winner as Louise Schumacher in Network (1976) for the briefest Oscar-winning performance, and Tony winner for The Crucible (1953).
Beatrice Welles
Beatrice Welles (Beatrice Giuditta Welles, Beatrice Mori di Gerfalco Welles), born 1955, daughter of Orson Welles and Countess Paola Mori; child actress in Chimes at Midnight and manager of her father's estate and restorations.
Beatrice Wood
Beatrice Wood (1893-1998), American artist and studio potter called the Mama of Dada; New York Dada journal The Blind Man founder, later famed in Ojai, California for iridescent in-glaze luster earthenware.
Beatrijs
Beatrijs is a 13th-century Middle Dutch rhymed poem, about 1,038 lines, telling how a nun who leaves her convent for love is forgiven through the Virgin Mary.
Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), British author-illustrator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and 23 Tales selling over 250 million copies; also mycologist, Herdwick sheep farmer, and National Trust benefactor who left over 4,000 Lake District acres.